I have a floppy with mouse.com on it. I think you either had to buy it separately, or it was shipped with your mouse

DOS didn't have mouse drivers. The drivers came in a floppy with the mouse.

Dos was never bundled with a mouse driver. They came with whatever mouse you bought back then.

yea i cant figure out why this other 622 boot disk i have has mouse + cd1 cd2 cd3 cd4 .sys files on it..
ohwell thanks for the insight guys

so is mouse.com everytime a different variant?? there is no universal mouse.com ?

Not reality. There were mainly three protocols: serial, Microsoft and PS/2. Most mouses will work with any driver of the same protocol, and some drivers are multi protocol.

You can download CTMOUSE and try It.

Usually the vendor (Microsoft, Logitech) provided the mouse driver pre-loaded on machines. Just use CuteMouse.

ultimately i want to have a zip100 disk loaded with all this specific drivers for both my 386 + 486
and then have both equipped with working zip100 drive from which to install..
something i could have done in my sleep literally in 1995

There is a mouse.com in the 2nd disk image of this MS-DOS 6.22 release.

(Edit by Dominus: removed warez site link)

I keep MS MOUSE.COM v8.2 around as my copy of Allegiance is extremely picky. One of these days, I'll see what the smallest option is that will work. I'm curious how compatible and compact some of the less common options are.

NOTE: I just grabbed a fairly comprehensive set of drivers from files.mpoli.fi, simtel, and a few other places before they disappear. Might be useful sometime.

I'm using old 6.24BZ, since it harmonizes well with my older and newer software.
For newer software, 8.x is better, though. It supports the windowed DOS sessions in Win 3.1x, for example.

A bunch of old mouse drivers can be found at Uwe Sieber's homepage.
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html

Yup, got those.

@lazibayer: please do not link to warez sites.

Cute Mouse is very small in size and free to use. Combatibility has been perfect for me so far.

(Seems like Sourceforge is down for maintenance.)

If you have free UMB, then use Microsoft mouse 8.20, it is more compatible, and especially if you use Windows 3.1x.

PS. I really do not know what Microsoft Mouse 9.01 added?

Carrier Command doesn't like Cute Mouse. It wants a Microsoft driver specifically.

Does it work with a Logitech driver?

My bad, it does work with Cute Mouse, at least in Virtual PC. I don't know why I couldn't get it to work on my DOS machine before.

ETA: This game has really flaky PS/2 mouse detection. It's not a driver issue. I tried different computers (all running MS-DOS 6.22), different drivers, different mice, always with the same result: PS/2 mouse is sometimes detected, but usually isn't. Serial mouse works OK. I also tried disabling CPU cache on one of the computers in case it was a CPU speed issue, but the problem persists. Clean booting DOS without any other drivers also didn't help. PS/2 mouse is fully functional in other programs, and also Windows NT. I don't know what could be the problem.